From: Alfredo Matos <alfredo.matos@digitalself.org>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: maali Al Janoob <mms82@hotmail.com>,
tomasw@gmail.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux wireless stack question
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:08:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1185797310.12159.2.camel@pegasus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1185795198.4006.89.camel@johannes.berg>
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 13:33 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 18:21 +0400, maali Al Janoob wrote:
>
> > What I want to do basically is changing the backoff algorithm to implement a
> > modified protocol in Linux (for my thesis). From what I know, the firmware
> > is inaccessible. Are you aware of any available source code for a firmware
> > of any driver?
>
> Nope, none freely available. There are some efforts (prism54, bcm43xx)
> to write free firmware for some devices, but none of them are in a stage
> that could be used. (prism54: dunno, but I know it's not usable;
> bcm43xx: only partially reverse engineered)
>
What about atheros dadwifi [1] and openHAL [2] ? Could this help ?
Alfredo.
[1] - http://madwifi.org/wiki/DadWifi
[2] - http://madwifi.org/wiki/OpenHAL
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-30 12:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-27 23:14 Linux wireless stack question hamsa Al Janoob
2007-07-27 23:28 ` Tomas Winkler
2007-07-29 14:21 ` maali Al Janoob
2007-07-30 11:33 ` Johannes Berg
2007-07-30 12:08 ` Alfredo Matos [this message]
2007-07-30 12:18 ` Johannes Berg
2007-08-13 22:02 ` madwifi question maali Al Janoob
2007-08-14 3:53 ` Michael Renzmann
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